US Patent Issued to Henkel on Oct. 6 for "Dry-wash aerospace cleaning composition" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,367, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Dry-wash aerospace cleaning composition" was invented by Tsehaye Negash Eyassu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Andrew M. Dahl (Wixom, Mich.), Bashir M. Ahmed (Rochester, Mich.) and Omar L. Abu-Shanab (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a no-rinse aerospace cleaning composition useful in cleaning painted and unpainted metal, as well as polymeric surfaces found in aircraft, the composition comprising an oil-in-water emulsion containing water, organic solvent, an aqueous emulsion of wax-free glossing agent, solid particles, pol...